January 12, 2011, 10:51 am
I am not an After Effects whiz, more like an AE hack, but I dream of being one someday, so I excitedly look at all the cool After Effects goodies that come along. Twitter went wild today talking about a new version of BG Renderer. It’s a script that seems to do just what the name implies, render in the background. I quote: "BG Renderer is a script that allows you to render your Render Queue items in the background while you can continue working in After Effects...

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March 21, 2019, 7:21 am
Internationally-renowned visual effects and content creation studio The Mill has recently invested in a number of BLG for Flame licences from FilmLight. This allows its VFX artists to see the latest colour grade on background plates and live action shots in context so that they can finesse the CGI to fit naturally, with no back and forth to the colour suite to render out new versions of shots.

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March 21, 2019, 7:21 am
Just recently our own Graham Sheldon has published an in-depth review of Frame.io after a year’s use. Now the application, that has won prizes, including our cinema5D Best of Show NAB 2018 Award for its interface and features is pushing another major update to both, adding important things like PDF-support and many other features. Here’s what you need to know.

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March 21, 2019, 7:21 am
Finding internships is not easy. And yet, in an increasingly competitive world for graduates trying to break into the creative industries, it’s an important step on the ladder to a successful career.

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March 21, 2019, 7:21 am
(Culver City, CA--March 15, 2019) March 15, 2019--Supervising Sound Editors Becky Sullivan and Andrew DeCristofaro, who share a 2015 Academy Award® nomination for their work on Unbroken, have joined Sony Pictures Post Production Services. The pair have collaborated on numerous films over the years, including this year’s Best Picture Academy Award® winner Green Book, with DeCristofaro as supervising sound editor and Sullivan as ADR supervisor. Sony Pictures is building theater-style studios with sound design and mixing capabilities for the two sound artists on the studio lot.

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March 20, 2019, 10:55 am
The new version of Autodesk’s Arnold introduces Arnold GPU in public beta, giving artists the chance to switch between rendering on the CPU and GPU with a single click without changing renderers.

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March 20, 2019, 10:55 am
Session, the Swedish music start-up co-founded by Abba’s Björn Ulvaeus and songwriters Max Martin and Niclas Molinder, formerly known as Auddly has launched Creator Credits, an initiative that aims to help music creators be correctly credited for their work.

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March 20, 2019, 10:55 am
Used by over 700K filmmakers and media professionals, Frame.io is rolling out 10 new features requested by users that will dramatically improve video collaboration. Discover more at NAB 2019.

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March 20, 2019, 6:25 am
Celebrated film editor and music editor and USC School of Cinematic Arts professor Norman Hollyn died in Yokohama, Japan Sunday night from coronary embolism and cardiac arrest. He was 66.